Ask the Readers: What Subscriptions Do You Pay For?

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There are so many subscription services available today. Everyone has heard of the traditional magazine and newspaper subscriptions. Many people subscribe to Netflix. But did you know there are subscription services that will deliver food, activities for your kids, books, and even clothes to you each month?

What subscriptions do you pay for? Magazines? Newspapers? Netflix? A food delivery service? If you don't have any subscriptions, do you ever find yourself buying magazines at the grocery store checkout or paying for movie rentals at Blockbuster?

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We pay for the newspaper (three days a week here in Detroit). My wife has a magazine subscription that she pays for. I have a magazine subscription that I get for free through our recycling rewards program so that technically might not count. We dropped Netflix about three years ago, but I was loyal to that for years prior. All in all, not too bad!

I subscribe magazines like National Geographic, Maclean, Backpacker, National Geographic Traveler, and some Chinese magazines on my iPad. Occasionally I would buy magazines in grocery stores based on the content of that particular issue, I like Chatelaine also.

We don't pay for any subscription services. We have Netflix but it's a gift from a family member. No cable, no magazines, no newspaper, no auto-purchases from amazon... I think maybe once in the last two years we got a movie from Redbox, but otherwise we don't pick up those products on impulse either. I guess the only "subscriptions" we have are to our utilities - power, gas, water, internet, and cell phones.

New York Times online and Netflix. I live in western rural Montana, it makes sense not to go the Multiplex I can see six movies for the price of a months netflix. Reading the NY Times online is an important part of my morning, I feel well informed about world events and culture.

I VERY rarely pay for subscriptions. (And I receive about 15 magazines a month) The last one I paid for was to "Gun and Garden" and that was at a discount of $3.75 for the whole year (6 editions) I buy a Sunday paper too, but do not subscribe to it.

Love my Netflix and so does my daughter! I get Shape, Whole Living, Outdoor, Family Cirlce (ending soon), and a free year to Better Homes & Gardens. My daughter gets High Five (gift from Grandma). Got a gift one for my sister for Taste of Home. I just think the food (jelly cheese etc) and wine ones are just too expensive for monthly deliveries. Though I almost thought of the Gevalia coffee for my sister for a gift. Occasionally I'll get Rachel Ray or Fitness or All You.

I subscribe to Netflix instant streaming and watch on my Mac and Wii and LOVE it! My budget is pretty tight as a grad student but it's totally worth it. Combine that with free Hulu and who needs cable? I also subscribe to two magazines - one of which was free by cashing out points with Recyclebank and another at a deep discount, like $5 for a year.

Because I homeschool, I get the following;
Weekend Newspaper for current events

And because we travel ALOT;
Budget Traveler
Backpacker

WE ALSO frequent our local liberary alot, so when I saw a deal on Black Friday for magazines (only $5. each), I bought the liberary the following subscription for everyone to enjoy;
Consumer Reports
Lego Club
National Geographic for kids
Southern Living
We don't have cable or netflicks. We rent movies @ redbox as needed.
We spend our money on family life as thats the Best "subscription" there is!!!

I have two magazine subscriptions, and they are magazines that I can't check out at my local library. Checking out past issues at the library is the way to go! I also subscribe to the our Sunday newspaper for the ads and coupons, since I am a BIG couponer. I'm contemplating subscribing to Amazon Prime for their e-books and movies, but I'm still doing a little research to find out if this would be a good value.

Our house subscribes to World of Warcraft about 6 months out of the year. Mainly during the summer. Every so often, when our cable company offers a deal on premium channels, we sighn up for those, too. I only have free magazine subscriptions, but I get quite a few!

I subscribe to Parents Magazine (it was dirt cheap and I love the ideas), Money Magazine (though I got it with airlines miles) and up until last month the newspaper (I cancelled it since we had delivery issues and they never address them when we contacted customer service)

I subscribe to two magazines ("Parenting" and "Mother Earth News"), two consumer ratings organizations online (Consumer Reports and Consumer Labs), and Netflix (2 discs/mo.). I try to maximize the value for the dollar.

I subscribe only to Netflix. But, I do benefit from my significant other's subscription habit of 2 daily newspapers, countless magazines (The Economist, Fortune and the list goes on and on) and numerous journals that pertain to his profession (Daedalus, Baltinistica, etc). To his credit, he reads them all and is frugal in most other ways. Reading is his main form of recreation.

We subscribe to Netflix, high-speed internet, my husband gets cooking magazines and other magazines that he got for a really good price. We also get Reader's Digest, which I got for an annual subscription for $10.

netflix, harpers, atlantic, the wa post, the wall street journal, various magazines that we use only because our frequent flier miles would expire unless we used them so we bought a magazine subscription as it was cheapest.

None! All of my mags are free (received as holiday gifts, paid for with Coke Rewards points, or just took advantage of free subscriptions I found online), don't have cable anymore, don't get the newspaper since I read the news online...oh, I do pay for internet. That's it.

We subscribe to the local paper (Sundays and Tuesdays only for ads & coupons), Netflix and Hulu Plus. My husband bought me a gift subscription to Birchbox last year, so I get a monthly box of beauty samples that I LOVE. I also subscribe to a monthly fiction email from writer Caitlin Kiernan.

I have 3 magazine subs, but I don't pay for them - I get them through Recyclebank rewards. The only paid subscription I have is for my local paper - but only 2 days a week, including Sunday. And the price was $20 for a year, which, with the coupons I get each week in the Sunday paper, pays for itself.

Even though we're in the age of digital magazines, my favorites tend to be 750MB + … which takes *forever* to download. So, I stick to my paper copies coming in the mail. I do subscribe to Netflix, for the once-a-month movie craving…still cheaper than going to the theater (and paying for a babysitter!). I just finished reading your article about subscribing to a meal-planning service…now I'm considering that. :)

I pay for a subscription to The Atlantic ($10, on special) and I'll probably renew because it was offered at that rate again if I bought another one (it will be a holiday gift for my sister and her husband).
I used to subscribe to a newspaper in Seattle. Now I'm sharing a friend's house; she pays for a newspaper subscription. I'm going to offer to chip in.

I have a subscription to our church magazines, and also one for Country Living. I don't regret it one bit! It's like Christmas every month. :) Other subscriptions, I've found to bring on more clutter than anything else.

Okay, I consider Amazon Prime a subscription service because I have to pay every year but it is totally worth it. I make the fee back in free shipping each year and make money on the deal buy not having to pay for many, many videos. Another bonus is my one free book a month I borrow through the Prime Lending Library. It is worth it's weight in gold. I don't really subscribe to any magazines anymore as my library loans them, and I do not care that I am reading them a month behind everyone else. I have had Netflix twice, and both times I found that I could get the movies/TV shows from the library faster.

The only thing I can think of that I pay for is the newspaper. I have a couple magazine subscriptions, but those were from rewards points so I didn't actually pay for them. We occasionally rent a movie from Redbox, but not often enough to justify any kind of streaming movie subscription.